Tell Me Where: Summary and How to Get Started

[Jenny]

Link: 3dbronze.com/tellmewhere/

Summary:

Released by 3D Bronze December 2020
Clues via text on website (click above)
Fully armchair
Treasure is Medium Size Forrest Fenn Inspired 3D Printed Chest with Personalized Inscription and 10 Silver Half Dollars AND 2013 Silver Eagle
No end date

[salemgeokers]

Anyone have any ideas? I had a couple but I'm stuck. Curious what others think

[susb8383]

I was thinking the weird way he embeds numbers (such as 11 in the first paragraph) could point to a gps coordinate.

I was also wondering what’s the point of the hint videos, especially the first one. One odd thing that stands out to me is “Find what is there.” If the solution were coordinates, it wouldn’t matter what is there.

I’m just grasping at straws here.

[pitstopbunny29]

Hi, I'm new to all this but I think the key could be to find out where he lives now... a non-existent town (fictional or a ghost town), somewhere in Kansas, prior to the speed limit change? Am I barking completely up the wrong tree? Also, a 'lonely' place can simply mean it's deserted?

[susb8383]

Welcome!

Could be. Since it's unsolved, any tree is a good tree.

[susb8383]

Although he does say that it's a place he's never been.

[goldhunter]

I believe he lives in Rochester, Minnesota. He does a lot of traveling but this is somewhere he's never been.

I really like this hunt. I haven't made any real progress, though.

[pitstopbunny29]

Kansas stuck out because of the map that zooms in on the 2nd video and also the sunflowers in the window of the general store...the national flower of Kansas.
The only places, I believe that have a 55 mph speed limit, are Alaska & the District of Columbia - I'm from the UK, so not 100% sure on that, but I know at one time there were speed restrictions of 55mph due to the oil crisis in the '70s. Also, the equation for time matches the figures he gives in the story.
Of course, the place could be a metaphor - I'm a psychologist so tend to read more onto things than maybe I should be doing, so I was thinking stuff like the moon, outer space or even death, as there's that element of depression.
Also did you notice that 4 words are in italic - can, as, when, SNAP 

[susb8383]

Not true about 55 mph. I live in MA and on one section of the Mass Turnpike (the part that stretches from Boston to 95), it's 55. I think that might be true around cities in general.

But good catch about the Kansas state flower.

I did notice SNAP but not the others. He talks about the key, and the key is what snapped, so maybe SNAP is important somehow.

[pitstopbunny29]

At the end of the 2nd video, the very small message across the screen reads...
"There's something in the first Tell Me Video. It will probably remain undiscovered. If discovered, it will probably be unrecognisable. If recognised, it will probably not be understood. It will not likely assist you with the solve but it could possibly tell you where. This is not a hint. Read the Story. Tell me where"
So after some sleuthing, I am none the wiser but I can tell you that the film used is Buston Keaton in One Week, made in 1920 and doesn't seem to have been tampered with (I was initially interested in the guy's shirt with the pattern on it).

The line "A simple twist and SNAP"....PANS?

[salemgeokers]

Well I don't think where he currently lives has anything to do with it. And I know the general area he lives for certain and it's nowhere near what I've seen above I, too, started with GPS coords. I always goy stuck in the middle of an ocean somewhere. The story is a bit confusing. Sometimes I wonder if it's the dog talking. And he says something about ORDER....so is something out of order? And there is something about the key that just isn't quite right. I know once a solution is shared I'm gonna feel dumb.

[susb8383]

Jan 15, 2021 12:52:47 GMT -5 pitstopbunny29 said:

At the end of the 2nd video, the very small message across the screen reads...
"There's something in the first Tell Me Video. It will probably remain undiscovered. If discovered, it will probably be unrecognisable. If recognised, it will probably not be understood. It will not likely assist you with the solve but it could possibly tell you where. This is not a hint. Read the Story. Tell me where"
So after some sleuthing, I am none the wiser but I can tell you that the film used is Buston Keaton in One Week, made in 1920 and doesn't seem to have been tampered with (I was initially interested in the guy's shirt with the pattern on it).

The line "A simple twist and SNAP"....PANS?

How did you read that tiny writing? I tried to blow up my screen as big as possible but couldn't get anything from it.

Also do you know what the music is? He used the same music on both videos so I wonder if it is important.

I also wondered if those black lines in the video mean anything.

[pitstopbunny29]

I was virtually sat on my laptop trying to read it! I thought it was some copyright notice, so I ignored it at first
I'll have a go at trying to crack the music, I'm into music like that rather than modern stuff.
I thought about the lines too, whether they stopped on particular letters etc, but nothing on that yet. The lines would fit with the clue...may not be 'discovered', recognised or understood

[pitstopbunny29]

OK, so the music was really easy to find...Somebody's Wrong by the Isham Jones Orchestra, fronted by Isham Edgar Jones, written in 1923/24 (not 100% sure as there seem to be contrasting dates), released on the Brunswick label

[susb8383]

Hmm...might be nothing. Thanks for finding it.

I've been trying to locate the second video. It says Western Electric at the end, but none of the b&w videos I've found from WE seem to match it.